And the reason it'd never happen is that we are collectively the most spoiled people on the planet, and most people just aren't going to be willing to do without their car, even for one day. We'll whine and bellyache about it, but when it comes time for action....just ain't gonna happen.

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We hav had no sound energy policy for the last 20 years, putting all our eggs in 1 basket, blame yourselves we keep putting the same ole guys in office it's all about money Being in the truckin business we have to have diesel and the big companies will not support a strike, it would only take a week toget the governments attention, and see if they would bail us out like tha airlines and railroads??? yes we get a surcharge but the prices move faster than the surcharge can adjust.

In Bama

The first 7 items on this link to Urban Legends Reference Pages deal with 'gas boycotts'. Dates and brands change, but the premise is the same. Don't fall for these hoaxes

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Bottom line, buy a motorcycle, a hybrid, bicycle or walk, I bought a Harley, it's fuel injected, gets 50mpg. We are going to have to compromise because they know we will pay and will continue to collect. You can cry, complain, scream or whatever but it's here to stay, We have seen the last of 1.00-2.00 dollar a gallon gas.

Exactly...it won't work that way. BUT, I think it will work this way.

The highest priced gas company, in a given area, should be found (Shell, Mobil, Conoco, etc) and NO ONE should buy gas from them until they drop their prices below the next highest company. If they drop their prices, then you find the new highest price company and boycott them until they lower their prices. And it just keeps going. This way we can keep buying the gas that we need but not from the highest priced company (and there will always be one company higher than the others). Hopefully, the price will start to come down as no company will want to be the highest priced company (and not have any customers). And that's the one which no one will patronize.

BUT...LOTS of people will have to participate.

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BUT, the biggest challenge would be to get this message out to the masses. Maybe a radio talk show, newspaper, billboard, internet (like this website), etc. Would require some creative ways to fund some of these. Some radio shows might do it for free. And then it would depend on how serious people want to be about getting theses prices lower.

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I live in Texas. Believe me, drilling is so happening right now that restaurants cannot get enough employees to work, stores cannot get enough employees to work, there are numerous jobs in town and on the rigs. What we are missing are refineries. There has not been a new refinery opened in a long time and several had been shut down due to EPA regs and other issues.

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This sounds good but the extra driving you make getting to the cheaper price won't balance. But i will admit I'll drive out of my way to not buy from Citco and i believe everyone should. The best thing we can do is reduce our dependency on foreign oil and that means drilling and refining our own resources, but there is one big problem, oil companies are making huge profits so they're happy the way it is. Bottom line, go out and vote so we can get people in office to help us. NO SHORT TERM FIX.

The problem with this plan is that these companies (Shell, Mobil, Conoco, etc) supply thousands of other fuel stations that you would be purchasing your fuel from. The only way to bring the price down is for the entire nation to cut back on fuel consumption. Bottom line.

record profits......simple math.
last year my net cost was $100 and my profit was $200
this year my net cost was $200 and my profit was $400
both years same product, same amount, higher prices.

it is not the fault of western oil co.'s for the spike in gas prices;
they are being locked out of countries where they would like
to expand oil and gas production.
oil is priced on the future's market; the future's price is set as a result
of known oil reserves looking forward into future.
(known reserves to replenish what is being drilled and extracted today)
presently 80% of the world's known reserves are controlled by state oil co.'s.
Higher demands by china and other dev. countries along withour appetite
for oil has increased demand but production has not kept pace with demand.
The problem is political instability within the nationalized countries.
Developing new oil fields is in the billions of dollars.
The western oil co'.s (BP, Chevron, Exxon-Mobil,Total, ConocoPhillips and
Royal Dutch-Shell) have the expertise and capital to extract the oil, but
due to political instability are gun-shy to invest equipment in countries that
for whatever reason someday may say "leave now, without your equipment",
or outright danger to the workers due to political instability.
Essentially, it is increasingly more difficult for the western oil co.'s to
reinvest their profits to maintain production while at the same time trying
to avoid risk in whatever country they may be drilling in.
'Safe' reserves such as the North Sea, the north slope of Alaska, and the
Gulf of Mexico are being depleted; with only 20% of known reserves not
controlled by states or gov't.'s, the cost to drill and develop is escalating;
example being the tar sands in canada.
another hot spot is the caspian sea area; breakoff countries from russia,
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are all huge players in today's
energy game - it remains to be seen how the western oil co.'s hand will
be dealt in the next decade or so, as Russia, once again fat from their own
oil & gas, is trying to influence these breakoff countries as much as possible.
Then there's iraq, iran and afghanistan - here again a political mess sitting
atop some the largest and under utilized oil reserves on the planet.

Ya'll are forgetting one thing. How much of the price of a gallon of fuel is TAXES. Feds bite into it several times along the way, then you have your state, county, and city taxes, all a percentage, not a fixed $. so as the price of fuel increases, so does the government profit at all levels.

d'kid

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We are re-living the 70's all over again. That's why we apparently need the government to step in and be our mommies.

Bingo. Everything you don't buy one day, you just have to go out and buy more of the next day. Won't hurt them a bit.

I've been driving trucks for 22 years. I'm occasionally at truckstop coffee counters listening to younger drivers preaching the same things I heard 22 years ago! "If we just shut down for a day or a week." Won't happen.

Yeah, I thought the job of every business was to charge whatever they think the market will bear for whatever good or service it's selling. It's what I do. I'm currently in the most profitable segment of my industry that I know to be in. I'm making more money with a $10,000 truck than most guys do with $100,000 trucks. I must be a scammer!

Tell someone in England what you're paying for fuel and see how much sympathy you'll get.

I have questions for you folks. Do any of you drink soft drinks or any other kind of beverages at any kind of restaurant? How much do you pay per GALLON of liquid refreshment WHILE b*tching about the $3 a gallon gas you had to burn to get there? How many of you same people carry a credit car balance? How many of you finance your NEW personal vehicles?

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